Yes, you can hide away and experience luxury at its finest in one of the most competitive places in the world. It sound quite counterintuitive, since Silicon Valley is known for being the high-powered land of titans of tech and the home of Stanford University, which is anything but chill. But on the eastern tip…
HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? Director Geremy Jasper just graduated Wesleyan, now living in his parent’s basement. Convinced he would never get out of Jersey, his daily routine was taking care of his grandparent with a broken hip, writing rap lyrics, and dreaming of another life as a New York City musician. After actually making it…
Get off your couch, fellow potatoes. Go to the cinema, sit with real people not staring at their phone (much). Picture this… watching “The Man With A Movie Camera”, at the beautiful Castro Theatre, accompanied by the live band, DeVotchKa. Thank you, San Francisco International Film Festival. Seriously, pure bliss. Who knew, this 1929, black…
RESISTANCE NOW ! Lynn Hershman Leeson takes nothing at face value. Her film, installation, and multimedia work highlight acts of courage against censorship and repression, unknown stories that have little chance of being told, if not for her persistence of vision. TANIA LIBRE In the documentary “Tania Libre”, Leeson introduces us to Tania Bruguera, a…
reviews of the SFFILM – San Francisco International Film Festival, including special guest appearances, live music, documentaries, local directorial debuts, independent films, surprise guests.
Make way for SFFILM, the Mother of all Film Festivals, the longest-running in the Americas. Happy 60th anniversary to you, San Francisco Film Festival. Clear your calendar, all of it, April 5 – 19. Your body and soul recharging station beckons with nearly 200 films, Spotlight on Argentina, live music, dancing, talks, master classes, field…
It was a big band era hit performed by Glenn Miller and his orchestra that brought Chattanooga to the world stage. “Pardon me boy, is that the Chattanooga Choo-Choo?” was the magical melody that put the modest Southern Railway stop on the map. But these days, Chattanooga has much more than a circa 1908 Train Depot…